A manufacturer has finally committed to producing the Viewliner II Baggage car for our scale. It took a long time to get them to listen but the announcement is official. We still need to keep an eye on the production schedule to ensure they follow through with the quality we …
October 26, 2020
HO Scale Needs a Mass-Produced Viewliner II Baggage Car
Final supporters
Despite HO being the most popular scale for model railroading, it has yet to have a mass produced model of the Amtrak Viewliner II Baggage Car. Since the debut of the prototype on 2014, both N Scale (KATO) and even O scale (Golden Gate Depot) have had a model produced or officially announced.
We are petitioning manufacturers like Athearn, Bachmann, and Rapido Trains to strongly consider the Viewliner II Baggage car as the next high quality Amtrak Model that we have come to expect from these companies. We have been extremely impressed with Athearn's efforts to upgrade the P42 to the Genesis line, Bachmann's success with the ACS-64 AND SC-44 Charger, and Rapido's preproduction samples of the upcoming Horizon Fleet cars. We have no doubt that either of these companies will do a fantastic job with the viewliner baggage car.
It is our hope that over time, each car type would be produced however, since the baggage car has the most geographic exposure and can be found on many Amtrak trains across the United States, it would be most advantageous to lead with this model first.
We are an enthusiastic and growing part of the model railroad hobby and truly appreciate compamies' efforts in listening to this particular portion of the market.
Please also indicate in the comments how many you would be willing to purchase!
Let's make this happen!
Updates
September 21, 2020
Seeing this level of interest confirms I am not the only one frustrated by this gap in our collections. It has been a long road but this momentum gives me the grit to keep pushing the manufacturers for an answer.
Reached 100 supporters
September 21, 2020
44 Comments
I use to live in Southern Pines, NC before relocating to Danbury, CT. While I'm not a big fan of passenger trains, I do admit that I would like to see this particular car in production as I would like to model Amtrak's Silver Star for a future HO scale layout.
I think it would be a great idea to make viewliner ll baggage and diners ,Specially When we have Ho Amtrak Fans who model the present.
A part of many modern Amtrak trains. Perfect for Superliner, Horizon, and Amfleet consists; a model is definitely needed in HO.
This model is past due to be made in HO scale, and Rapido Trains is the logical choice to produce it.
Viewliner baggage cars would have the broadest appeal given their deployment on mid- and long-distance trains throughout the country. I’d love to see a full line of Viewliner Is and IIs, plus the prototype sleepers and diner. Having the prototype sleepers and diner in their original Phase III paint would be a dream come true.
Please please please make this!! It's a must-have and I can't understand why it hasn't been done yet.
Oh, please! I'd buy a bunch. I want baggage. I want diner. I want sleeper! I want them all! NOW!
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A manufacturer has finally committed to producing the Viewliner II Baggage car for our scale. It took a long time to get them to listen but the announcement is official. We still need to keep an eye on the production schedule to ensure they follow through with the quality we …
October 26, 2020
HO Scale Needs a Mass-Produced Viewliner II Baggage Car
Final supporters
Despite HO being the most popular scale for model railroading, it has yet to have a mass produced model of the Amtrak Viewliner II Baggage Car. Since the debut of the prototype on 2014, both N Scale (KATO) and even O scale (Golden Gate Depot) have had a model produced or officially announced.
We are petitioning manufacturers like Athearn, Bachmann, and Rapido Trains to strongly consider the Viewliner II Baggage car as the next high quality Amtrak Model that we have come to expect from these companies. We have been extremely impressed with Athearn's efforts to upgrade the P42 to the Genesis line, Bachmann's success with the ACS-64 AND SC-44 Charger, and Rapido's preproduction samples of the upcoming Horizon Fleet cars. We have no doubt that either of these companies will do a fantastic job with the viewliner baggage car.
It is our hope that over time, each car type would be produced however, since the baggage car has the most geographic exposure and can be found on many Amtrak trains across the United States, it would be most advantageous to lead with this model first.
We are an enthusiastic and growing part of the model railroad hobby and truly appreciate compamies' efforts in listening to this particular portion of the market.
Please also indicate in the comments how many you would be willing to purchase!
Let's make this happen!
Updates
September 21, 2020
Seeing this level of interest confirms I am not the only one frustrated by this gap in our collections. It has been a long road but this momentum gives me the grit to keep pushing the manufacturers for an answer.
Reached 100 supporters
September 21, 2020
44 Comments
I am signing this because if anyone is modeling the Lakeshore Limited, Cresent, Silver Metoer, etc this would be a very nice addition and make the consist more prototypical
I use to live in Southern Pines, NC before relocating to Danbury, CT. While I'm not a big fan of passenger trains, I do admit that I would like to see this particular car in production as I would like to model Amtrak's Silver Star for a future HO scale layout.
I think it would be a great idea to make viewliner ll baggage and diners ,Specially When we have Ho Amtrak Fans who model the present.
A part of many modern Amtrak trains. Perfect for Superliner, Horizon, and Amfleet consists; a model is definitely needed in HO.
This model is past due to be made in HO scale, and Rapido Trains is the logical choice to produce it.
Viewliner baggage cars would have the broadest appeal given their deployment on mid- and long-distance trains throughout the country. I’d love to see a full line of Viewliner Is and IIs, plus the prototype sleepers and diner. Having the prototype sleepers and diner in their original Phase III paint would be a dream come true.
Please please please make this!! It's a must-have and I can't understand why it hasn't been done yet.
Oh, please! I'd buy a bunch. I want baggage. I want diner. I want sleeper! I want them all! NOW!
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I am signing this because if anyone is modeling the Lakeshore Limited, Cresent, Silver Metoer, etc this would be a very nice addition and make the consist more prototypical